I am having an absolutely amazing time, we have indeed been touring in our once shiny (now very dusty) mitsubishi, tis an automatic and we love it already as have already done over a thousand kilometres and it hasn't boken down yet, fingers crossed, touch wood etc! But it should be ok cos we both have AA cover and we bought a more expensive car to reduce the liklihood of breakdown and/or stranding! We have toured around northland so far, going up the beautiful west coast through amazing Kauri forrest and past stunning coastline, (the beaches are sooo long and straight that they are actually state highways with a national spped limit on them, making them less desirable for sunbathing!). After leaving Auckland we headed west to stay in a small town called dargaville which
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